Improvement in stove-gbates



CHARLES WATERS AND HARVY'ABRQWNQF POUGHKEESIEASSIGNORS To HENRY G. GILES, 0F TRoY, NEW YORK.

Letters .Patent No. 71,345, :dated November 26,1867. v

: @gergert :stiftet tn 'it time @nutrinten mit making pitt iii tlge' ttm(l To ALL WHoM IT MAY ooNoERN=- Be it known .that "we, CHARLEs Wirt-Ens and HARvY A. BROWN, ofthe city of Poughkeeps, in the COUP-ty f Dutchess, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful-Improvement@ Grate-Rests for Stoves;` and we do hereby declare that the following is a, full and exact description'thereot, reference being had to the accompanyiug drawings, Iand to the letters of reference marked thereon. v i i ,i i The purposegofl our invention is to enable one to drop the `front side of the grate suiiic'cntly tohainl frour` the bottom of the firepot the stone, cinders, dto., that may have collected there, and then `replace the grate, Vwithout removing the grote-handle at any time duringthe operation. i

Figure 1 is a front elevation, showing-the rest A in position. Figure 2 shows plan of grate B and bed-platel D. A Figure" isa vertical section at a a, with grate-handle e in position, h -,Figure' v{1,plan of section of `grate B, with its shank F, and handle C, and main rest'E. Figure 5- is plan of front rest Aopen, and also shows plan of the cross-bar or hack rest E.

Figure shows front rest A open, and grate-shank resting on the horizontal-portion of Apart No. `2. vThe rest A is made in three parts, asNos. 1, 2, and A portion of N obl is constructed so lnsto be bolted to the bed-plated), with the main portion of it hanging nearly'nt right angles from the bed-D, with :tsho'rt` horizontal turn at the lower '-en-d suic'ient to receive and hold up one endv of the putt Nm` `3. No. 2 is similarly `constructed and bolted tothe bed-plate D, with the lower end extending on a horizontal line towards Nofl, andfarenough `below the bed-plate D to leave spncei'or the grate-shank F to move between itnnd the bed D. To the lower horizontal end of No. 2 is attached, by o; swivel-joint, one end' of `the part Nol?, while the other end of No. 3 rests on the short horizontal portion attire' lower end oF No. 1, where it istemporarilyfseeured ,ut slight'latchand catch, devised between the two parts 1 and 3. The horzdnta-l projection 'of the lmiirfl 0f NM2 should be long enough to receive the full width of the shank F back of the swivel-joint, soins to receive and sustain the grate in place, while thel'opening portion No. 3 is swung around preparatory tro `letting `the grate do'wn. v n v i h To use the rest when complete and in its place': The grate-handle C is {i1-st entered into the shank` of the grate t ,t

then" bythe handle the whole is moved round until 'it rests on` the horizontal portion of the pnrt'No. 2. "No, is then thrw'n round, whichopens the front or centre of the rest A by means of: the handle C. The grateshonk' F is then moved to the centre, and 'then lowered until the grnte's on about the lineroi" forty-five degrees, asiindicated by the -dotted -lincs in fig.V 3, in which position the sla-g from the bottom oi' thc fire-pot maybe hauled forward by n'com'mon stove-poker and cleared out, so as to have n'fresh fire from the greteupwards; and when this operation is completed the grate may be raised to its place', and centre partfolf the re'stis replaced, after which the'grate may be revolved 'from side to side if desired, to further sift thelshes down. l

4 The main orback rest E (see iig. 5)'is constructed so as to form a centre for vthe vpivot in centre of the grate to revolve in, while each end is carried back to near n line with the back sidelof the gratte,` and is made to form the axis on which the grate tips up and down. 'Y Y i The advantage ofthis kind of rest is, that in dropping the front part the-greater portion of the whole grate lets down from the bottom of the fire, leaving the whole space under the fire clear to the bneklside of the grate free, for the purpose of hauling out the slag at ,the bottoni ot' the re. i i

` 4A second advantage is, that when the front of.the grate is let clear down, the ina-ss of slag and coal is i ,l c'hrge'din front of the grate, from whence it is easily removed,'on'd .the grote raised to :its place. I In place of the swiveljoin`t between Nos. 2 and 3, the two parts may be made in one'piece, and `swing open on th'eboltgholding them to the bed-plate; but in'thnt case the grate must be held up by one handwhile opent i tv; ingiand closing it with the other, which is sometimes inconvenient, but much better than no opening at nll for R `1: the purpose.

We claim as follows: p 1. A front rest fora stove-grate, having one portion arranged to open, in the manner andfor the purposes set forth, .i

2. The rest, in parts Nos. 1,2, and 3, olrther equivalents, in combination with the swivel-joint. 3. `The rest A, comprised of-the ports Nos. 1, 2, and 3, in combination with thc cross-bar E, when the nxis or end bearings` nre back of or one side of the centre ot' the grate B. t

t HARVY A. BROWN,

(MIAS. WA TERS.

Witnesses:

Giro. l1. MCLEAN, 2d,

, t i R., W.'Fno sr. i 

